Journaley - A simple and elegant open-source journal keeping software for Windows compatible with Day One

Evernote - Bring your life's work together in one digital workspace. Evernote is the place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your important projects forward.

Daybook - Daybook is an application that allows you to record activities, experiences, thoughts, and entire ideas throughout a day and protect all of your information with a strong password.

Joplin - Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.

GloboNote - GloboNote is a free and easy to use desktop note taking application.

OneNote - Get the OneNote app for free on your tablet, phone, and computer, so you can capture your ideas and to-do lists in one place wherever you are. Or try OneNote with Office for free.